Schlemiels on Wheels

[Mark Feit]

http://www.dfire.org/x2920.xml?ss=print
	Skullberg.  (See the slide show.)

http://www.kingdavidbikers.com
	They have a chapter in Oman of all places?

http://www.yowmtc.com
	Oy vey, eh!

http://jewishbikers.com
	Beer, babes and borscht.

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(And since I so rarely get to tell this joke...)

Mort Shapiro is having a mid-life crisis and decides that the best way
to solve it is to buy himself a motorcycle and make a hajj that is
distinctly Jewish: He's going to ride from the Carnegie Deli in New
York to D.Z. Akins in San Diego.

Before his corned beef sandwich at the Carnegie, Mort rides over to
Temple Beth Abraham to visit his uncle Hiram, an orthodox rabbi.

"Uncle Hiram, I'm going on this cross-contry trip and I'd really like
it if you would say a brucha over my Honda."

His uncle will have none of it.  "Vhat?  You want me to bless a
motorcycle?  Absolutely not!  I don't bless people's cars, and I'm
certainly not going to do so for a motorcycle!  Quit wasting my time
with such things, boychik, I have a congregation to tend!"

Dejected, he heads down the road to the B'nai Israel congregation,
where he'd been a member years before.  The reception there was a bit
more cordial, but the result was the same: no brucha.

In desperation, he pays a visit to a local reform synagogue and seeks
out its rabbi.

"Rabbi, I just bought a new motorcycle and I'd like you to say a
brucha over it before I set out on a cross-country trip between the
Carnegie and a deli in San Diego."

"My boy, that sounds like a wonderful thing!  Let's go out to the
parking lot."

The rabbi oohs and ahs over his bike and pays Mort several compliments
on selecting such a fine machine (in blue and white, no less!) for his
quest.

"By the way...", says the Rabbi...

"Yes?", asks Mort.

"What's a brucha?"